OR,

The Radical Affinities

OF THE

GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES

TO

The Gothic:

ILLUSTRATED FROM THE MOESO-GOTHIC, ANGLO-SAXON,
FRANCIC, ALEMANNIC, SUIO-GOTHIC, ISLANDIC, &c.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A DISSERTATION ON THE HISTORICAL PROOFS
OF THE SCYTHIAN ORIGIN OF THE GREEKS.

BY JOHN JAMIESON, D.D. F.R.S.E. & F.S.A.S.

AUTHOR OF AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE
SCOTTISH LANGUAGE, &c. &c.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS;

FOR LONGMAN, hurst, reeS, ORME, & BROWN,'

LONDON:

AND BELL & BRADFUTE; DOIG & STIRLING; W. BLACKWOOD;
J. ANDERSON & CO.; AND OLIPHANT, WAUGH, & INNes,

EDINBURGH.

1814.

PREFACE.

THIS work, like some others which the author has published, owes its existence to a circumstance merely accidental. Having discovered various links of connexion, to which he had not formerly adverted, between the languages of the most polished nation of antiquity, and that of a people generally reckoned among the most uncivilized; and having, for his own satisfaction, prosecuted the investigation to a considerable length; he presumes, that it will not be deemed totally unimportant to the interests of literature, that he should lay the result of his inquiries before the public.

In all disquisitions of this kind, a wide field is necessarily opened up to fancy; and it may be thought, that at times it has not been restrained within proper bounds. The objects, which seem clear to one, to the eye of another may be in